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Philadelphia releases updated Roadmap to Safer Communities with initiatives to combat gun violence
PHILADLEPHIA - The City of Philadelphia released its 2021 update to the Philadelphia Roadmap to Safer Communities, which is a multi-year violence reduction strategy designed to create a safer, healthier and more just city. The Roadmap to Safer Communities has four key goals, which include connected and thriving young people, a strong community engagement, coordinated city services, and safe and healthy neighborhoodsIn 2020, gun-related homicides was the leading cause of death of young Black and Latino men and represented 90 percent of all the homicides in the city. The city's Roadmap to Safer Communities seeks to reduce shootings by 30 percent citywide by the end of 2023. In an effort to ahieve this goal, the Roadmap to Safer Communities